The federal government announced a new pilot program designed to get new kinds of ultralight vehicles and “eVTOLs” up and running around the country—even if they’re not fully FAA-certified.
Planned to fly in 2028, the X-76 will explore technologies for fast-flying runway-independent aircraft with folding rotors, crewed and uncrewed.
The U.S. Air Force has some iconic aircraft among its ranks, but it has also flown has some truly unique elusive, and plain ...
A Chinese company has developed what it claims is the world’s largest flying electrical vertical takeoff and landing vehicle, or eVTOL.
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Bell’s new 517 mph-speeding aircraft for DARPA’s SPRINT program passes design review
In military aviation, the runway has always been a tether. It provides the distance ...
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DARPA's High-Speed VTOL SPRINT Aircraft Receives X-76 X-Plane Designation
DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. The DARPA ...
1,000 horsepower is reasonably common now, but it would have been absolutely mind-blowing in the 1920s — and this British ...
Bell is reinventing aviation, again.
The X-76 is the latest in a long series of experimental X-planes developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
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